Is there universal health coverage in Iran?
Majd: Most people are either privately insured or have government insurance. You can have government insurance, and if you’re not insured at all, there are free hospitals and there are charity hospitals as well. So there is and there isn’t. I mean, if you have a major operation, you could potentially have a problem if you don’t have insurance, and there are people who don’t have insurance, but you can get insurance from the government and it’s not expensive compared to the United States. It’s not quite socialist, it’s not a socialist model, and it’s not quite like Northern European countries where there’s this universal healthcare paid for by the taxes, but it’s also not like America where you really are, you know, in trouble if you don’t have insurance of any kind. Question: How much does Internet censorship curtail information? Majd: It’s exactly like China. They use the same software, American software, which is used by the Iranian authorities. It’s very odd, though, because when I’
